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In September 2015, SASKO launched its SASKO Siyasizana Daycare Project to assist daycares in Tembisa in receiving much-needed items for their facilities. In five months, 350 participating daycares collected 300,000 SASKO bread bags. To acknowledge their hard work and perseverance, SASKO awarded 1,385 prizes at the first Prize Giving on 10 March 2016.

In partnership with I'langa Mall and German development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), Kruger Lowveld Chamber of Business and Tourism (KLCBT) organised a CSI Expo in Nelspruit.

14 young women attended SpaceTrek, a week long bootcamp organised by MEDO (Meta Economic Development Organisation).

Cape Town Climate Walk held in solidarity with worldwide COP21 event.

The Movember Foundation is fighting for men to live happier, healthier and longer lives by shaping the landscape for male specific diseases through research and survivorship programmes.

Humane Society International launched Green Monday in South Africa. The new initiative aims to improve animal welfare, human health and environmental sustainability.

Vodacom's collaboration with the Mangosuthu University of Technology (MUT) has resulted in a welcome boost for three high schools in the Durban area: Menzi High, Zwelihle High and Westville Boys High. MUT played host to the second Africa Engineering week at their campus on 28 September to 30 September. UNESCO, together with its strategic partners in South Africa, the Department of Science and Technology (DST), eThekwini Municipality, and the Engineering Council of South Africa were the co-hosts....

Launched officially on 17 September 17 2015 at the Ivory Park North Hall, Siyasizana - which means we are helping each other - is a project that will see local daycare mamas collecting SASKO Bread bags in order to redeem them for much needed items for their daycares.

Founder and CEO of Quercus Investment Partners, Diego Biasi, handed over a massive cheque for the first of three tranches - comprising R10m - to Red Cross on Tuesday, 15 September.

The initiative along with the Unlimited Titans' assistance provided a make-over to the Happiness Crèche in Boksburg for The Unlimited Child programme.

The 27th Vodacom Aryan Benevolent Home (ABH) Chatsworth Fair proved to be a resounding success attracting tens of thousands of people to Chatsworth's Arena Park from Thursday 30 July to Sunday 2 August.

On Friday, 17 July 2015 - ahead of Mandela Day, the Sasko team gathered at the Bakery in Epping Industria with one purpose in mind: To yield their butter knives while making sandwiches and share the goodness in honor of Nelson Mandela.

On 16 July 2015, Zelda La Grange, Johrnè van Huyssteen, Alex Caige, Angie Khumalo, Mac Masina, Piet Croucamp and Karen Zoid, along with several other bikers, donned helmets to take part in the sixth annual Bikers for Mandela Day event.

The growing amount of litter found in oceans around Africa, the lack of understanding about ways of combatting marine debris, and the need for a unified plan to tackle the problem on the continent was high on the agenda during the Second African Marine Debris Summit that took place from 3-5 June 2015 in Cape Town.